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Neighborhood Highlights
The East Bay boasts a plethora of family friendly activities. Please enjoy our selected items! Main topics include: Local News Stories, Parks, Neighborhood Safety, Pest Control, Schools, Transportation and Parking, Up and Coming Developments, and Where To / Service Referrals.
California Coastal Cleanup Day
Saturday, September 17. 8:30 AM to Noon
Join in this annual statewide-sponsored event to help remove trash and debris from your choice of shoreline areas in Richmond. The plastics that collect along the shores are a special focus due to the dangers they pose to wildlife. Marine animals can be injured through entanglement or by ingestion. Many types of sea critters have been found stuck in plastic debris such as fishing lines, bags and beverage container rings. Many animals will eat plastic, thinking it is food. When an animal ingests plastic, the debris can block its intestinal passage causing it to starve to death. Cleanup at Marina Bay is sponsored by the Watershed Project with a free barbecue hosted by County Supervisor John Gioia while East Bay Regional Park District is sponsoring cleanup with snacks and water provided at Point Pinole and Point Isabel Regional Shoreline parks. Volunteers should bring a bucket (for litter pick-up) hat, gloves, refillable water bottle, and sunblock. The sponsors will provide trash bags. Go to East Bay Regional Park District and Watershed Project websites for more information and to register.
Bay Trail Plant Restoration
Saturday, Sept. 17, 9:30 AM to 2 PM
Join Tom and Jane Kelly to help continue their ongoing native plant restoration project along the Bay Trail between Point Isabel Regional Shoreline and Marina Bay. Where: Point Isabel next to the dog park – just off I-580 (take Central to the bottom of the I-580 overpass. At the stop sign (Rydin Road) turn right and come down to the end of the street.) Contact info: Tom or Jane Kelly (510) 704-8628 (w) or (510) 684-6484 or kyotousa@sbcglobal.net. Please do RSVP – it will help them coordinate tools with the East Bay Regional Park District. And remember to wear long pants, bring hats, sun screen, water, and family and friends. They will supply gloves, tools, and refreshments.
Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library
Every Monday – Huntington Park
At the corner of Carlson Blvd and Huntington Ave., Richmond Annex
Time: 5:30p – 6:30 PM
Every Friday – City Farm
The corner of San Joaquin Avenue and Colusa Street, Richmond SW Outer Annex
Time: 5:30p – 6:30 PM
“Richmond Grows is a non-profit seed lending library located in the public library. We’re open whenever the public library is open. You do not need to have Richmond Public Library card to use the seed library, but we do ask people to watch our on-line orientation. We provide free classes on organic gardening and seed saving, and of course, you can also borrow books from the public library on these topics.”
Upcoming Holidays
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: October 10th
Veterans’ Day: November 11th
Thanksgiving Day: November 24-25th
East Bay Home and Garden
30th Annual Richmond Home Show
Location: Richmond Raceway Complex
Date: October 8-9, 2016
“At the 30th annual Richmond Home Show you will see everything you need to make your home more beautiful, energy efficient, safe and comfortable. Whether you want to remodel your kitchen or bath, add or rebuild a deck, or replace that old electricity-eating heat pump you can find it all in just three days. If you want to save time, money and educate yourself, then the Richmond Home Show is the event for you.”
East Bay Home Show by the Bay
Free admission and parking at the Historic Craneway Pavilion!
Location: 1414 Harbour Way South, Ford Point, Richmond
Date: September 17 -18, 2016
Show Hours:
Saturday 10am – 6pm
Sunday 10am – 5pm
Real Estate Market Snapshot
Number of U.S. housing units for sale: 1,556k
United States; US Census Bureau; 1975 to 2012. Number of U.S. housing units for sale only from 1975 to 2012 (in 1,000s). Accessed September 2016
Average price of new homes sold in the U.S: $292.2k
United States; US Census Bureau; 1965 to 2012. Average sales price of new homes sold in the U.S. from 1965 to 2012 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars). Accessed September 2016
U.S. vacancy rate forecast for commercial property from 2012 to 2017, by type, by percentage
Source: United States; IHS Global Insight; Deutsche Bank; February 2013
Note: The figures from 2009 to 2012 are actual, all remaining figures are forecasts.
Richmond City Council Highlights
City Council Consent Calendar
I-22. APPROVE actions to update the Economic Development Commission: APPOINT Jeff Shoji, new appointment, seat #14, term expiration March 30, 2019, Malia Everette, new appointment, seat #15, term expiration March 30, 2019; ANNOUNCE the resignations of Michele Wells, seat #2, term expiration March 30 2018, Sandra Naylor, seat #7, term expiration March 30, 2017; and DIRECT the City Clerk to post the vacancies – Office of the Mayor (Mayor Tom Butt 620-6503).
Ordinances
K-1. ADOPT an urgency ordinance of the City Council imposing a temporary (45 day) moratorium on certain evictions and certain residential rent increases in the City of Richmond – Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin (620-5431).
Council as a Whole
L-1. DISCUSS and consider reestablishing the Finance Committee and Public Safety Committee – Mayor’s Office (Mayor Tom Butt 620-6503).
L-2. DIRECT staff to schedule three public meetings starting in October 2016, after a planning process with stakeholders, so that the public can provide input on key values for Pt. Molate’s rehabilitation and redevelopment – Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin (620-5431)
Richmond City Planning Highlights
Design Review Board Meeting
Date:
September 14, 2016
Time:
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:
Multipurpose Room, Community Services Building, Basement Level
Address:
440 Civic Center Plaza
Richmond, CA 94804
Contact:
(510) 620-6706
About the Feagley Real
The Feagley Real is an ongoing publication by Feagley Realtors. We provide an overview of the real estate news in the East Bay area. Feel free to contact us with comments, suggestions, and other inquiries at: sanfranciscobayfronthomes.com.
Works Cited
United States; IHS Global Insight; Deutsche Bank. 2013, February. U.S. vacancy rate forecast for commercial property from 2012 to 2017, by type*. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
United States; US Census Bureau; 1975 to 2012. Number of U.S. housing units for sale only from 1975 to 2012 (in 1,000s). Retrieved September 2016
United States; US Census Bureau; 1965 to 2012. Average sales price of new homes sold in the U.S. from 1965 to 2012 (in 1,000 U.S. dollars). Retrieved September 2016